Upstate TravelsAfter the War of 1812, British travelers, intensely curious about the United States, poured across the Atlantic. Hundreds published their impressions in lively, quarrelsome books that infuriated and enchanted Americans and Britons alike. Most of these volumes have been out of print for a century or more. Here Roger Haydon brings together forty two excerpts from one generation of these travelers' accounts, between 1815 and 1845, when New York State was